Re: Convert Analog to Digital couple of questions

In article <BFEAFF36.2A360%johncarrana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, John Carrana
<johncarrana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There are two ways of converting Analog to Digital on my Canon MVX25i.
> 1: Record from the VCR to tape on the camera. 2: from the VCR through the
> camera (no tape) to the Mac. What method will give the best sound/picture
> quality to record to DVD.
Identical.
If you record to tape first, you will have a backup, and your movies
will have timecode. If you ever upgrade to Final Cut Pro, or use an
asset manager like CatDV, then you won't have to start from scratch on
a second project that uses the same video assets.
With batch capture in FCP or grabbing hte timecoded assets out of
CatDV, re-creating all the input clips to your movie can be done
unattended. The alternative, if you don't want to re-log everything, is
to dedicate 13Gbytes/hour of video on your disks.
>
> As well as Quicktime I used Vidi to record from the VCR. The colour was
> lighter using Quicktime. Is there a better program to use.

Whatever method you use for DV capture, the captured material will be
an identical - bit for bit - copy of what the camera produced in its
hardware DV coder. If you see something different, it will be happening
at playback time.

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